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Articles


  • "The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites." The Journal of Holocaust Research, 35:2 (2021), 154-162.
  • ​"יכול להיות אחרת (It Could Be Different)," in Tamar Herman and Ofer Schiff, ח׳׳ו הצעות לישראליות  (Eighteen Proposals for Israelism), (Raanana: Open University Press, 2020), 75-79.
  • "Products of Israelization," Response to Itamar Ben-Ami's article "A New Look at the 'New Haredim': " Ha-zeman ha-zeh, December 20, 2020 (Hebrew).
  • ’PAAJR at Inception: Novelty, Growth, and Birth Pangs in the Post-World War I Era." David Sorkin, ed., A Commitment to Scholarship: The American Academy for Jewish Research. New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 2020, 95-109.
  • “Historicism through the Lens of Anti-Historicism: The Case of Modern Jewish History.” Herman Paul and Adriaan van Veldhuizen, eds. Historicism: A Travelling Concept. Bloomsbury Academic, London and Oxford, 2020.
  • "My Israel Story: An Interim Report on a Winding Journey" (Hebrew).  In Kavim le-demutenu: lahakor et Yisra'el, likhtov `al `atsmenu, edited by Avner Ben-Amos and Ofer Schiff. Tel Aviv: Yedi`ot Sefarim, 2020, 405-319.
  • “Israel’s Very Own ‘Illiberal’ Democracy.” The Tel Aviv Review of Books, Winter 2019.
  • “An Axionormative Dissenter: Reflections on Julius Stone.”  James Loeffler and Moria Paz, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 284-295.
  • "The Triumph of Majoritarianism, and the Decline of Democracy." Simon Rabinovitch, ed., Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 2018,183-191.  
  • "Jewish Studies: History, Memory, Scholarship," in Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels, eds., The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 8: The Modern World, 1815-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 804-830.
  • “What if Musa Alami and David Ben-Gurion Agreed on a Jewish-Arab State?”  Gavriel Rosenfeld, ed. What Ifs of Jewish History, Cambridge University Press, 238-258.
  • "The Rise of a Sovereign Shtetl: Communitarianism from the Bottom Up in Kiryas Joel, N.Y."  Jewish Studies Quarterly 23 (2016), 222-246.
  • "Rawidowicz be-Berlin." Mikan Ve-eylakh 1 (2016), 49-52.
  • “Peter Beer in Prague: Probing the Boundaries of Modern Jewish Historiography." H. Amstutz et al., eds., Fuzzy Boundaries: Festschrift für Antonio Loprieno (Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag, 2015), 705-714.
  • "Rethinking Sovereignty and Autonomy: New Currents in the History of Jewish Nationalism."  Transversal 13 (2015), 44-51.
  • "Between Supersessionism and Atavism: Toward a Neo-Secular View of Religion." Secular in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times, eds. Ari Joskowicz and Ethan B. Katz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), 261-275.
  • Co-authored with Pini Dunner, "A Haredi Attack on Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik: A Battle over the Brisker Legacy," Jewish Quarterly Review 105 (Winter 2015), 131-138.
  • “At the Border: David Ellenson and the Study of Modern Judaism.” Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson (2014). 1-16.
  • "Six Theses on the Sustainability of Minority Culture in a Majority Society: The Jewish and Muslim Cases," Muslim World 104 (2014), 397-400.
  • "Introduction," Issue devoted to Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Jewish History (February 2014).
  • “Commanded War: Three Chapters in the ‘Military’ History of Satmar Hasidism.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81:2 (June 2013), 311-356.
  • “Reflecting on the Jewish Condition in the Kaffeehaus,” Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj, 1932-2007 (Berlin, 2012), 113-118.
  • La ‘Civilisation’ après Mordecai Kaplan: Sur l’idée d’une entité juive globale aujourd’hui.”  Shmuel Trigano, ed. La civilisation du judaïsme de l'exil à la diaspora (Paris, 2012), 39-50.
  • “She’elat ha-pelitim: mabat hadash `al zikaron ve-shikhekhah” (The Refugee Question: A New Look at Remembrance and Forgetting), in Meir Chazan and Uri Cohen, eds. Tarbut, zikaron ve-historyah be-hokarah le-Anita Shapira (Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 2012), 655-669.
  • “A Novel Look at Moshe Idel’s East-West Problem,” Jewish Quarterly Review 102:2 (Spring 2012), 289-296. “Entre Palestinocentrisme et nationalisme diasporique: Le double héritage de Ben-Zion Dinur.” Les cahiers du judäisme 31 (2011), 92-96 
  • “Rethinking the Jewish Nation: An Exercise in Applied Jewish Studies.” Havruta 6 (Winter 2011), 26-33.
  • “Jenseits des Einfluesses: Hin zu einer neuen Kulturgeschichte?”  Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 18/19 (2009), 495-507.
  • “Kitaj’s Napkin Map.”  Jewish Quarterly Review 99:4 (Fall 2009) 547–550
  • “Ben Yisrael le-`amim: hirhurim `al matsav limude ha-historyah ha-yehudit be-Yisrael” (Between Israel and the Nations: Reflections on the State of Jewish Historical Scholarship in Israel),  Zion 74 (2008/09), 339-352.  A revised version appears in English as “Is There Still a ‘Jerusalem School’? Reflections on the State of Jewish Historical Scholarship in Israel.” Jewish History 23:4 (2009), 389-406.
  • “Philosophy and Kabbalah in Wissenschaft des Judentums: Rethinking the Narrative of Neglect.”  Studia Judaica (Cluj-Napoca) 16 (2008), 56-71.
  • “Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab Question: A Prescient Gaze into the ‘New History.’”  Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner, Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Michael A. Meyer (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008), 143-167.
  • “Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of a Modern Jewish Motif.”  Jeremy Cohen and Richard I. Cohen, eds. The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (Oxford: Littman Library, 2008), 24-35.
  • “Glaube und Geschichte: A Vexed Relationship in German-Jewish Culture.”  Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness, edited by A. Gotzmann and C. Wiese (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 54-72.
  • “R. B. Kitaj and the State of ‘Jew-on-the-Brain.’” The Jewish Role in American Life 5 (2007), 69-73.
  • “Simon Rawidowicz, ‘Hashpaitis,’ and the Perils of Influence.”  Transversal 7 (2006), 13-26, reprinted in Klaus Hödl, Kulturelle Grenzräume in jüdischen Kontext (Innsbruck, 2008), 65-76.   
  • “Vom Berlin nach Jerusalem: Zionismus, jüdische Wissenschaft und die Mühsal kultereller Dissonanz.” Janusfiguren: Jüdische Heimstätte, Exil und Nation im deutschen Zionismus (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2006).
  • “Can there be a Principled Anti-Zionism?: On the Nexus between Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought.”  Journal of Israeli History 25 (March 2006), 33-50.
  • “A Third Guide for the Perplexed?  Simon Rawidowicz ‘On Interpretation.’”  History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band.  Edited by William Cutter and David C. Jacobson.  Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2002.
  • “Selbstreflexion im modernen Erinnerungsdiskurs.”  Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute: Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen.  Munich: Beck Verlag, 2002.
  • “Rebel in Frankfurt: The Scholarly Origins of Jacob Katz.”  The Pride of Jacob: Essays on Jacob Katz and His Work.  Edited by Jay M. Harris.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • “The Problem of History in German-Jewish Thought: Observations on a Neglected Tradition (Cohen, Rosenzweig, and Breuer).”  The Samuel Braun Lecture in the History of the Jews of Prussia.  Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. 2001.  
  • “Between Yiddish and Hebrew—and Greek? Thoughts on the Language(s) of Jewish History.”  Commentary to roundtable discussion in Jewish Book Annual 55/56 (1997-1999), 45-52.
  • “Hazono shel Hazony, or Even If You Will It, It Can Still Be a Dream.”  Israel Studies 6 (Summer 2001), 107-117.
  • “Hermann Cohen and the Quest for Protestant Judaism.”  Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 46 (2001), 195-214.
  • “Mehabevin et ha-tsarot': Crusade Memories and Modern Jewish Martyrologies." Jewish History 13:2 (Fall 1999), 49-64.
  • Introduction and commentary, Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases (Atlanta, 1999), 1-3, 125-130.
  • “Derrida’s Yerushalmi, Yerushalmi’s Freud: History, Memory and Hope in a Post-Holocaust Age.” 
  • La Sho’ah tra intrepetazione e memoria (Naples, 1999), 489-507.
  • “Response to Jay Harris’ Reading of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.” Textual Reasoning 8 (November) 1998, 1-4.
  • "Mashber ha-historicism u-misud mada`e ha-Yahadut" (The Crisis of Historicism and the Institutionalization of Jewish Studies).  Mada`e ha-Yahadut (Journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies) (Fall 1998).
  • "Of Marranos and Memory: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History."  Jewish 
  • History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, (Hanover, NH, 1998), 1-21.
  • Introduction and "Between Diaspora and Zion: History, Memory and the Jerusalem Scholars."  The Jewish Past Revisited, (New Haven, 1998), 1-15, 88-103.
  • Introduction and "'The Blessing of Assimilation' Reconsidered: An Inquiry into Jewish Cultural Studies," From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community (Scranton, PA, 1997), vii-xviii, 17-36.
  • "The Ideology of Wissenschaft des Judentums."  Daniel Frank and Oliver Leaman, eds., History of Jewish Philosophy (London, 1997), 706-721.
  • "A New Scholarly Colony in Jerusalem: The Early History of Jewish Studies."  Judaism (Spring 1996), 142-159.
  • "'Distant Relatives Happening onto the Same Inn': The Meeting of East and West as Literary Theme and Cultural Ideal." Jewish Social Studies I:2 (1994/95), 75-100.
  • “Was there a ‘Jerusalem School?’: An Inquiry into the First Generation of Historical Researchers at the Hebrew University.” Studies in Contemporary Jewry (10) 1994, 66-92.
  • "Eugen Täubler: The Personification of 'Judaism as Tragic Existence'." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (39) 1994, 131-150.
  • In Search of the "Harmonious Jew": Judah L. Magnes between East and West.  John L. Sills Memorial Lecture.  Berkeley, 1993.
  • "The Fall and Rise of Jewish Historicism: The Evolution of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (1919-1934)."  Hebrew Union College Annual 63 (1992), 107-144.
  • "Remembering Zakhor: A Super-Commentary." History and Memory 4 (Fall/Winter 1992), 129-146.
  • Nomi Maya Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "Community, Constitution and Culture: The Case of the Jewish Kehilah." Michigan Journal of Law Reform 25 (Spring and Summer 1992), 633-670.
  • "History as Ideology: The Case of Ben Zion Dinur, Zionist Historian 'Par Excellence'."  ­Modern Judaism, May 1988, 167‑194. 
  • "The Scholem‑Kurzweil Debate and Modern Jewish Historiography."  Modern Judaism, October 1986, 261‑285.

Forthcoming Articles

Reviews

  • Review of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader by Derek Penslar.  Israel Studies Review 25 (2020), 154-156.
  • “Between Past and Present, Jew and Arab: An Exchange between Gil Anidjar and David N. Myers,” AJS Review 34 (2010), 400-403
  • “Victory and Sorrow,” review of Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar.  The New Republic, October 22, 2008, 44-47.
  • Review of The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine.  Los Angeles Jewish Journal, December 31, 2004.
  • Review of Mémoire juive et nationalité allemande: Les juifs berlinois à la Belle Époque by Jacques Ehrenfreund.  Jewish History, fall 2003.
  • "Ha‑Yahadut ha‑reformit: teguvah yehudit le‑modernah." ­Ha-Doar, 2.24.89, 14‑17.  (Review essay of Michael A. Meyer, ­Response to Modernity.) 
  • Review of ­Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution by Christopher Browning.  Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1988.
  • Review of ­Political Principles in Maimonidean Halakha (Hebrew) by Gerald J. Blidstein.  AJS Review, Fall 1987, 282‑290.
  • Review of ­Hitler and the Armenian Genocide by Kevork Bardakjian.  ­Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1987. 

Other

  • Editor’s Introductions in the Jewish Quarterly Review 94: 1 (2004), 94:4 (2003); 95: 3 (2005), 97:4 (2007), 99:4 (2009), 102:1 (2012) 103:2 (2013).
  • “Geschichte” (entry) in Enzyklopädie jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, vol. II, 437-450
  • “Rethinking Secularization Theory: The Case of the Hasidic Public Square.” With Nom Stolzenberg, AJS Perspectives (Spring 2011), 37-38.
  • “Rethinking Jewish Collectivity in a Post-Statist World,” Jewish Peoplehood Papers 5 (2010), 8-11.
  • “The Fading Faith of a Jewish Moral Exceptionalist.”  Sh’ma 40/664 (Nov. 2009), 5-6.
  • “What does Kiryas Joel Tell Us about Liberalism in America?”  With Nomi M. Stolzenberg.  The Chronicle: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 71 (2008), 49-53.
  • “R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) and the Jewish Archive.”  American Art (Summer 2008), 98-100.
  • “R. B. Kitaj and the Idea of ‘Jewish Art.’”  R. B. Kitaj: Passion and Memory (Exhibition catalogue from the Skirball Culture Center, 2008).
  • Section Introduction, Western State Jewish History (special issue devoted to Pioneer Jews of Los Angeles in the Nineteenth Century) 38 (Spring/Summer 2006), 154-156.
  • Roundtable Special Feature: “The Israeli Settlements.”  Yale Israel Journal 7 (Summer 2005), 34-35.
  • Interview, “Zu ‘Diaspora’ und den ‘Segnungen der Assimilation.’”  Kalonymus 4 (2001), 23-27.
  • Entries in The Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion, Encyclopaedia Judaica, and Zeman Yehudi hadash.
  • "Dual Loyalty in a Post-Zionist Era".  Judaism, summer 1989, 333-343.
  • Historical Appendix in Reuven Porat, ­The History of the Kibbutz: Collective Education, 1904-1929.  Norwood Editions, Norwood PA: 1985, 150‑193.
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